White Linen #839
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
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HIXS Evolution@2X #610
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Heavy depth and shadows here, but might work well on some mobile apps.
Source Damian Rivas
Retina Dust #915
Light CC BY-SA 3.0First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
Paper Fibers@2X #1061
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Just what the name says, paper fibers. Always good to have.
Source Heliodor jalba
Background pattern black #2026
Dark CC 0Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Cream Pixels #1144
Light CC BY-SA 3.0If you don’t like cream and pixels, you’re in the wrong place.
Source Mizanur Rahman
Grid Me #605
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Nice little grid. Would work great as a base on top of some other patterns.
Source Arno Gregorian
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background #555
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Green Tiles, Background Pattern #1329
Green CC BY-SA 3.0A free background pattern with abstract green tiles.
Source V. Hartikainen
Zig-zag pattern 5 #2414
Grid CC 0A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Graphcoders Lil Fiber #729
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Tiny little fibers making a soft and sweet look.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Fabric pattern 3 (colour 6) #2382
Fabric CC 0Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Retro Circles Background 7 No Black@2X #434
Unknow CC 0Retro Circles Background 7 No Black
Source GDJ
Exclusive Paper@2X #24
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Paper pattern with small dust particles and 45-degree strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Micro Carbon #7
Carbon CC BY-SA 3.0Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
Tile-able Wall Texture (Light Orange Brown) #1051
Stone CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless texture of an abstract wall colored in shades of light orange brown.
Source V. Hartikainen
Green Cup #1211
Unknow CC BY-SA 3.0I scanned a paper coffee cup. You know, in case you need it.
Source Atle Mo
Floral design 87 #1886
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Fleurs-de-lys pattern 2 #2205
Dark CC 0Colour version of the original pattern inspired by the front cover of 'Old and New Paris', Henry Edwards, 1894.
Source Firkin
"Dark Red Canvas", Seamless Web Texture #1221
Red CC BY-SA 3.0A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 235 (colour 2) #2254
Blue CC 0To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Repeating Web Background (Dark Brown) #1079
Metal CC BY-SA 3.0This one has rusty dark brown texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Green Subtle Web Texture #1334
Green CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless green background texture. The image is distributed under a Creative Commons License (like all of the images here).
Source V. Hartikainen